Why Should Delaware Care?
As the threat of deportation has increased for undocumented residents under the Trump administration, the state and some local jurisdictions have decided to not assist efforts to remove peaceful undocumented people. Those decisions may now come with a cost though, as the federal government has threatened funding cuts to those with such policies.

The Trump administration labeled Delaware, New Castle County and two municipalities as sanctuary jurisdictions that obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration law on Thursday, putting new legal pressures on policies that have shielded some undocumented families in the state.

The city of Newark and town of Camden were both classified as sanctuary municipalities that “deliberately and shamefully” interfere with immigration enforcement, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Delaware was one of 36 states that DHS listed as being out of compliance with federal law following an executive order signed in April.

Under the executive order, federal officials are instructed to find federal funds going to the sanctuary jurisdictions listed and suspend or terminate them as appropriate. 

If places remain sanctuary jurisdictions after they are notified of their status, the U.S. Attorney General and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security will pursue all necessary legal remedies and enforcement measures to “end these violations and bring such jurisdictions into compliance” with U.S. laws, according to DHS. 

The “sanctuary” classification of Delaware jurisdictions may be due to policies in place at the county and state level that restrict cooperation with federal immigration agents, as well as the reversal of a partnership between Camden police and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). 

The Trump administration’s labeling of Camden — a Kent County town of just over 4,000 residents — as a sanctuary jurisdiction comes just one month after the Camden Police Department became the only law enforcement agency in Delaware to formally partner with ICE. 

Camden police quietly signed a task force partnership agreement with ICE on April 29 that deputized local officers to enforce immigration law. Camden police withdrew from the agreement a week after it was signed, following public backlash and hours after Spotlight Delaware published a story about the agreement. 

Camden is one of hundreds of municipalities and counties that are catalogued in the DHS list published under an April 28 executive order that requires a list of sanctuary jurisdictions to be maintained by the U.S. Attorney General and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. 

Gov. Matt Meyer, New Castle County, Camden and Newark officials could not be immediately reached for comment on Thursday night.

The Trump administration has previously retaliated against “sanctuary” jurisdictions in the past by suing them and threatening to withhold funding from them. Last week, the Trump administration sued four New Jersey cities for their “sanctuary” policies that were interfering with immigration enforcement. 

A “sanctuary” jurisdiction is typically a state, county or municipality that has laws or executive orders in place that restrict its cooperation with federal immigration authorities. The scope of the policies can vary, as there is no universally accepted legal or standard definition for “sanctuary” policies. 

The list was put together to identify sanctuary jurisdictions and was determined by factors such as compliance with federal law enforcement, information restrictions and legal protections for undocumented immigrants, according to DHS. 

Each of the listed jurisdictions will receive formal notification of its “non-compliance” with immigration laws and DHS will demand each place to immediately review and revise their policies to fall in line with federal law, according to DHS. 

Why is Delaware considered a ‘sanctuary’ state?

While Delaware has never officially been labeled a sanctuary state, officials have discussed and implemented policies that the Trump administration has considered “sanctuary” policies. 

In January, Gov. Matt Meyer vowed to “protect people” but stopped short of pledging to make Delaware a sanctuary state. 

“We’re going to protect people,” Meyer said at the time. “We’ll have no tolerance for anyone in Delaware going door-to-door or looking for people who are doing no wrong, doing nothing but trying to feed their family, and trying to send them away.” 

A month later, Meyer told Spotlight Delaware that Delaware State Police wouldn’t work with ICE in most situations. 

The governor’s office said it would not use state law enforcement resources to carry out federal immigration policies “unless there is a valid court warrant and an exigent circumstance where the community is at risk,” Misty Seemans, deputy legal counsel with the governor’s office, said at the time.

In 2017, then-New Castle County Executive Meyer signed an executive order restricting county police from working with ICE as well as prohibiting any arrests based on immigration status. In an interview with Spotlight Delaware on Thursday, current County Executive Marcus Henry said he “stood behind” that policy.

In the General Assembly, there’s nearly a dozen bills being considered that would restrict local law enforcement from cooperating with ICE. 

Still, immigration enforcement in the First State has quietly cracked down. 

A Spotlight Delaware analysis of unsealed court records showed that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware drastically increased the number of criminal cases against people re-entering the country without authorization after previously being deported in the first months of the year.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware later confirmed Spotlight Delaware’s reporting by touting an 800% increase in the number of immigration-related criminal cases that the office has prosecuted this year compared to 2024. 

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Why Should Delaware Care?
Federal immigration enforcement in Delaware has quietly ramped up in the first four months of the year, with criminal charges for unauthorized reentry skyrocketing in 2025. Despite receiving little attention, the escalation showcases the promises of deportation crackdowns on which President Donald Trump retook the White House.

Federal immigration enforcement in Delaware has quietly and drastically escalated in the first four months of the year, with federal prosecutors bringing forth more criminal deportation cases since January than in all of 2024. 

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware has criminally charged at least 29 people with re-entering the country without authorization after previously being deported thus far in 2025, according to a Spotlight Delaware analysis of unsealed court records. 

Last year, the office only charged four people. 

The dramatic uptick in enforcement by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Delaware comes amid the backdrop of President Donald Trump’s second administration, which was successful, in part, by campaigning on the promise of mass deportations and an immigration enforcement crackdown. 

ICE booked nearly 43,000 people into detention during the first three months of the Trump administration, according to the nonpartisan data research nonprofit Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University. 

Conversely, the agency booked just over 24,000 people into ICE detention in the last three months of the Biden administration, according to TRAC. 

In late January, the Trump administration pressured ICE officials to increase arrests from a few hundred per day to at least 1,200 to 1,500, according to reporting from the Washington Post. The quotas came after Trump was reportedly disappointed with the outcome of the mass deportation promises he ran on.  

That led to initiatives like a six-day operation in Florida where over 1,000 people were arrested — over 60% of whom had an arrest or a conviction, according to ICE and reporting from the New York Times. The operation was geared toward arresting people with deportation orders and criminal histories.

ICE deportation operations in the First State have mostly gone unnoticed during the first months of the Trump presidency, with little media attention and no confirmed mass raids.

All of the 29 cases charged in Delaware so far involve men who are currently incarcerated, have been criminally charged and, or, who have been previously deported but returned to the United States.

The escalation of criminal cases against suspected undocumented immigrants, however, indicate that enforcement has quietly ramped up. Illegal reentry cases now represent the bulk of charges filed by U.S. Attorney David Weiss’s office in the first three months of the Trump administration.

Delaware State Police notified ICE of at least two arrests

In March, Delaware State Police notified ICE agents about two separate arrests of suspected undocumented immigrants. In February, Gov. Matt Meyer promised that state police wouldn’t work with the agency in most situations.

The governor’s office said it would not use state law enforcement resources to carry out federal immigration policies “unless there is a valid court warrant and an exigent circumstance where the community is at risk,” Misty Seemans, deputy legal counsel with the governor’s office, said at the time. 

In the March cases, both men had been arrested on criminal changes when their immigration status was checked. One man was arrested for drug dealing-related charges, while the other was arrested for stalking-related charges, according to court records. 

When reached for comment, Meyer’s office referred Spotlight Delaware to the Delaware Department of Safety & Homeland Security and did not respond to emailed questions. ICE and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware did not respond to requests for comment. 

India Sturgis, spokesperson for Delaware State Police, said that both cases involved felony-level criminal offenses and in such cases, where there is a potential threat to public safety, “communication with federal agencies may occur in accordance with applicable law,” Sturgis wrote in an email to Spotlight Delaware. 

Delaware State Police does not proactively contact ICE or participate in immigration enforcement actions that are solely related to a person’s suspected immigration status, according to Sturgis. 

She added that information may be shared with federal agencies, including ICE, in connection with criminal investigations or public safety concerns. 

ICE arrests continue in recent days

On Wednesday, ICE agents with the Dover field office conducted a traffic stop on a Guatemalan man in Sussex County, ultimately arresting him and charging him with unauthorized reentry, court documents show. 

The agents stopped the man, believing he was another person for whom they had an immigration warrant. The man provided agents with a Guatemalan ID card and was arrested after he couldn’t provide immigration documents. 

The man was previously encountered by U.S. Border Patrol near the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas in 2014. The man was deported to Guatemala four days after being picked up by Border Patrol agents. 

On Thursday, federal agents in New Castle arrested a man from Mexico who had previously been deported three times in 2007, 2008 and 2009, according to court records. The man was charged in Delaware District Court with unauthorized reentry after being deported. 

In total, 13 people were arrested for various separate charges, such as driving under the influence and probation violations, before ICE was notified of their arrest by the agency’s California-based Pacific Enforcement Response Center (PERC), according to court documents. PERC notifies ICE field offices nationwide about undocumented immigrants who are suspected, arrested or convicted of criminal activity, so the agency can arrest them.

All of the people who have been charged so far this year are from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador or the Dominican Republic.  

In April, arrest warrants were issued for two men who were already in prison. One was facing pretrial detention, while the other was a sentenced prisoner at Sussex Correctional Institution. 

ICE has made over 26,000 arrests thus far in fiscal year 2025, which runs from October through September, according to ICE data. Criminal charges against two more men were filed on Wednesday and Thursday. 

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Why should Delaware care: 
Thousands of children have settled in Delaware over the past decade after arriving in the United States without a parent. Most of them have come from Central American countries that have been afflicted by escalating violence. What happens to them could impact communities, schools and the political landscape across the state.

Children who arrived in Delaware from outside the United States in recent years may have to represent themselves in immigration court after the Trump administration slashed hundreds of thousands of dollars last month that had been allocated to pay for lawyers for kids who had entered the country without a parent.

The decision has left Delaware nonprofits who provide immigration services reeling, and prompted some immediate layoffs at one local organization.

Among those who have lost their jobs is Joanne McAfee-Maldonado, who had served as a paralegal for the immigration childrens program at Church World Service in Georgetown since January. 

She was laid off on a Monday. She had until Friday to clear her caseload. 

In those five days, she told two children, ages 7 and 17, that she could no longer help them with their immigration cases. Instead, she referred them to other legal aid services in Delaware. 

She cried after they left her office, she said. 

McAfee-Maldonado’s clients were among the more than 26,000 children who had been receiving representation through the Acacia Center for Justice and its legal service providers across the country. Those include Church World Service and La Esperanza Community Center in Delaware. 

The Trump administration’s March 21 order cancelled part of a $200-million contract with Acacia that funds lawyers for unaccompanied children.

In a letter to Acacia announcing the decision, Trump administration officials said the contract was terminated “for the Government’s convenience,” according to reporting from the Associated Press. 

A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services official said that the department continues to meet legal requirements established by the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, which carves out legal protections for children who come into the country without a parent, in an email to Spotlight Delaware.

The White House did not respond to request for comment sent by Spotlight Delaware.

A shrinking legal industry

The funding cuts could force thousands of children to face the increasingly complex immigration system without a lawyer, increasing their chances of being deported, according to a report from the Congressional Research Service published last year. 

One striking example occurred in New York City earlier this month when a 4-year-old dressed in a tie-dye shirt sat for a virtual hearing with an immigration judge, holding a pink plushy toy, according to a report from Gothamist.   

“Not having legal representation to help (unaccompanied children) navigate this piece of their life makes them even more vulnerable,” McAfee-Maldonado said.

Unaccompanied children are minors who enter the United States without authorization and without an accompanying parent or legal guardian. Last fiscal year, the Office of Refugee Resettlement received 98,356 referrals for unaccompanied children from the Department of Homeland Security.

In Delaware, 3,606 unaccompanied children were released to sponsors from 2014 to 2024.

A total of 456 were settled just last year in the state. 

La Esperanza — one of the state’s largest organizations serving immigrants — oversees legal aid to 60 cases of unaccompanied children. Prior to the federal cuts, Church World Service was managing two. It has scrapped plans to take on three more cases. 

La Esperanza is continuing to manage its current unaccompanied minor caseload with its own funding, despite the federal dollar drought, according to Bryant Garcia, La Esperanza’s acting executive director. 

Prior to the funding cuts, La Esperanza had been eligible to receive up to $260,000 in reimbursements from the federal government to fund its unaccompanied minors legal program, according to Garcia. Now, they must find money elsewhere. 

“We’re still providing the service, but it’s just a matter of making up whatever funding we’ve lost,” Garcia said. “If all that funding dries up in the next coming years, then we can’t continue that work.”

The loss of money means that La Esperanza most likely won’t take on new unaccompanied minor cases, and instead will scrap expansion plans for new staff and offices. 

A Georgetown office shuttered

The Trump administration’s decision to cut money for legal aid to minors adds to other federal austerity actions that, in sum, have caused Church World Service to permanently shutter its Georgetown office — the only location in Delaware — after over a year of operations.

Church World Service was receiving about $335,000 for its unaccompanied minor work prior to the cut, according to Donna Polk, the organization’s office director in Georgetown. The office will close May 9.

The organization is also reducing staff capacity across the U.S. by nearly two thirds because of the federal actions, which include funding cuts to its refugee resettlement programs, according to the group.

In February, the Trump administration first abruptly cut funding for lawyers working with unaccompanied children, but reversed the decision a few days later. A month later, the administration reissued the cuts. 

Following the order in March, a handful of nonprofits sued the Trump administration over the funding cut. A federal judge in California held a hearing on Wednesday on the question of whether to issue a full injunction to stop the cuts.

She has not yet ruled on the question, and so it remains unclear if federal dollars will be reinstated amid the ongoing litigation. 

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Why Should Delaware Care?
The Prescription Opioid Settlement Distribution Commission recommends how the state spends a $250 million settlement it won from opioid manufacturers and distributors. Following reports of fraud last summer, the flow of new grants has all but stopped. 

Following a leadership shakeup on a commission responsible for how Delaware spends millions of dollars to fight opioid addiction, there are new legal questions as to whether new oversight can take hold.

Joanna Champney, the state’s top substance abuse director, was appointed co-chair of the Prescription Opioid Settlement Distribution Commission two weeks ago by Gov. Matt Meyer after months of controversy surrounding the program.

It also means staff that previously managed oversight and day-to-day administration of the fund, which were previously handled by the lieutenant governor’s office, would transfer to her office in the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health. 

Her office would be instrumental in selecting which organizations are nominated for grants, which in some cases have totaled up to $500,000. 

But a member of the commission challenged the move at a recent meeting, questioning if it’s legal for Champney’s office to take control of the embattled fund. David Humes, a member of the full 15-member commission, chairs the subcommittee that reviews the administrative compliance of the government body. 

Is legislation required?

At a Tuesday commission meeting, Humes aired concerns that sparked an hour-long debate over the influence of the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health in the grantmaking process. 

Now, the commission wants clarification from the Delaware Department of Justice as to whether it’s within the law for staff to be transferred to Champney’s office. 

He argued the commission should remain under the wing of the lieutenant governor based on a 2021 law created to manage the millions of settlement dollars flowing into the state. 

That law designated the commission as a subcommittee of the Behavioral Health Consortium, a board in the lieutenant governor’s office that approves the recommendations made by the commission. It also says the consortium “shall provide administrative support to the commission.” 

“It is my belief that legislation would be required to move the (commission) to the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health,” Humes said in an email to commission members one week after the appointment. 

In attendance at the meeting was Delaware State Solicitor Patty Davis, who leads the Department of Justice’s Civil Division and has contributed to the commission’s work. 

She quickly dismissed the idea that the staff transition was in violation of the code. 

Davis said the law didn’t include what office the commission staff would land within and since the consortium is not a state office, where the staff goes is “nebulous.”

“Our code is not prescriptive as to where they sit, I’m very comfortable with them sitting with DSAMH,” Davis said during the meeting. “I’m very comfortable with the way that this decision was made.”

She also said the process of approving the grants would remain unchanged and that all final approvals would still go through the consortium.

While Humes said he respected Davis’ opinion on the matter, he still introduced a motion to clarify whether commission staff could be moved to the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, which the committee overwhelmingly approved. 

That clarification would be presented to members of the full commission at a March 3 meeting. 

Memo shows change still waits

Spotlight Delaware also obtained a Feb. 5 memo sent by Champney and Attorney General Kathy Jennings, the commission’s other co-chair, discussing the administrative transition between the two offices. 

The memo said an update on the transition would be discussed at a commission meeting in early March. 

It also said Champney’s office was in the process of transitioning employees from the lieutenant governor’s office to the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health once it has the “authority to do so.”

A spokesperson for Champney’s office said that because the jobs haven’t been transferred to the agency yet, they can’t be filled. 

“Situating oversight of the (commission) staff within DSAMH will also allow for grantmaking personnel to consider how grant applicants’ funding requests align with existing grant awards made by the state using federal funds and how funding requests fit into the state’s continuum of care,” the memo said. 

When asked if the new leadership transition violates the law governing the commission, a spokesperson for the Delaware Department of Justice denied the claim.

They pointed to a piece of Delaware code that said the co-chairs are responsible for “guiding the administration” of the commission. 

“What’s unambiguous here is that these decisions are ultimately up to the governor and the attorney general,” the DOJ said. “The governor has chosen commission leadership that emphasizes expertise rather than station; moving the staffing from the lieutenant governor’s office to DSAMH.” 

Grants have been on pause

Delaware hasn’t awarded any new grants from the opioid fund since last July, when it approved $2 million in three-month extension grants for previous awardees. It came soon after a letter from Jennings called for a pause on grants, claiming the program was “rife with potential for fraud, waste, and abuse.”

Jennings’ letter followed a separate notice from the state’s top auditor that accused a Kent County nonprofit of securing its grant with “fraudulent documentation.” 

Members of the Behavioral Health Consortium, which approves the recommendations from the commission, greenlit the July grants after a meeting that slammed the letter. 

During that meeting, one nonprofit leader called the letter a politically motivated “witch hunt,” due to it being released so close to a heated gubernatorial primary race between then-Lt. Gov. and Commission Co-chair Bethany Hall-Long and Meyer, an allegation the DOJ denied. 

“This is not Monopoly money. These are real dollars that the DOJ fought incredibly hard to secure, and every penny belongs to the public,” a DOJ spokesperson said in an email at the time.

Since then, the state has yet to put forward any recommendations as the commission contended with mismanagement concerns and the fraud allegations. 

Champney’s first major task will be distributing $13 million in grants set aside by the consortium in July. Compared to the previous two grant phases in 2022 and 2023, this new sum would be the largest amount distributed by the commission to date. 

Get Involved
The commission is set to have its first full meeting of 2025 on March 3 at 1 p.m. at the Delaware Technical Community College Stanton Campus or on Zoom.
Find the agenda here. 

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Why Should Delaware Care?
About a quarter of Delaware adults live with a disability and, while voting accessibility in Delaware has improved, many still face barriers to exercising their right to vote privately and in person.

Emmanuel Jenkins drove past a dimly lit school on Election Day in November. His assigned polling place, the Woodbridge Early Childhood Education Center in Greenwood, had no signs, few cars and even less people — it was probably closed, he thought. 

Jenkins, a community relations officer with the Delaware Developmental Disabilities Council, drove to the nearest polling place, a fire station, where he was told he had to return to the school and drive around the back, toward the gymnasium, where voting was taking place. 

There were no signs directing people to the gymnasium and, if there were, people living with low vision would have difficulties finding the polls, he added. It would be difficult for a voter with limited mobility to find and travel to the gymnasium if paratransit dropped them off in the front of the building, Jenkins said. 

“Voting should be at least the one thing that we have no barriers to,” said Jenkins, who lives with cerebral palsy. “It is our right; it is our responsibility, and if we cannot exercise, are we really part of the United States of America?”

About one in four adults in Delaware live with a disability and physical or environmental barriers at polling places are encroaching on their most fundamental civil right — voting. Physical barriers around parking, entrances and exterior pathways may discourage people living with disabilities from exercising their right to privately vote in person, according to advocates. 

In 2024, some voters with disabilities reported improvements in accessibility at polling places compared to past elections, but accessibility issues still persist.

Nationwide, among in-person voters in 2022, the rate of difficulties was over three times higher among people with disabilities than those without disabilities, according to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission 2022 Disability and Voting Accessibility Survey. 

About 20% of in-person voters with disabilities reported difficulties, compared to 6% of voters without disabilities, the survey found. 

During the 2024 elections, the Community Legal Aid Society Inc. (CLASI) continued its years-long effort to survey polling places to ensure they’re accessible to Delawareans living with disabilities. 

Monitors from CLASI surveyed over 90% of all polling locations statewide and over 93% in Kent and Sussex counties, covering 258 locations overall, according to Joann Kingsley, a voting rights advocate with CLASI’s Disabilities Law Program. 

While the final survey results have not been published, the organization is “pleased that preliminary figures suggest improvements in accessibility,” she added. 

Voting should be at least the one thing that we have no barriers to.

Emmanuel jenkins, delaware development disabilities council

John Nanni, who is living with post-polio syndrome and uses a wheelchair, had a “great” experience voting in the 2024 election compared to 2020. On Election Day 2020, a line of voters wrapped around the Crossroads Presbyterian Church in Middletown, Nanni’s assigned voting place. 

Poll workers didn’t pull elderly folks or people living with disabilities out of line to avoid the wait then. But in 2024, workers pulled people living with disabilities out of the long lines and had them enter the building to vote first. 

“I know they don’t do that in a lot of places, but they did at this polling center, which was great,” Nanni said. 

By law, all voting places must be accessible to people with disabilities. All voting places are equipped with a Universal Voting Console, a headset and audio-tactile ballot handheld device that allows voters with low vision and others with disabilities to vote unassisted. 

As a result of CLASI’s 2022 report, the DOE removed 11 locations due to accessibility issues for the 2024 election, according to Cathleen Hartsky-Carter, community relations officer with the Delaware Department of Elections.

Seven locations were removed in Sussex County and four were removed in New Castle County. Polling places are removed from the list if appropriate accessibility changes cannot be made and new locations are added. 

Polling places are open to making accessibility adjustments, but the buildings often don’t have the needed funding to make the facilities accessible on a regular basis outside of Election Day, Hartsky-Carter added.

Accessibility monitored across Delaware 

Joann Kingsley looked down at her phone as the screen lit up her face amid the November election night. She looked up and counted the blue accessible parking spaces at the First Baptist Church of Milford, a bustling polling place she was monitoring for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). 

Her eyes darted around the parking lot as she rapidly read out criteria for which she was looking.

There was no significant slope, potholes or identifiable cracks in the lot — good. There were over a dozen handicapped parking spaces near the entrance, but they were not identified by vertical signs — not good. 

Kingsley would later find that the church entryway wasn’t wide enough for a wheelchair to fit through without both doors needing to be held open.

Monitors survey parking entrances, accessible parking spaces, exterior pathways, building entrances and the interior voting area for ADA compliance. They then enter their findings into an online survey tool. 

CLASI compiles its findings and presents them to the DOE in order to improve voting accessibility for future elections. 

Signage was a widespread issue at Delaware polls during the 2022 election, especially for directing voters with disabilities to accessible parking, routes and entrances, according to CLASI’s 2022 report. 

Monitors found polling locations without any directional signs, while others had signs pointing voters in the wrong or opposite directions, the report found. Additionally, nearly a third of monitored locations in 2022 had inaccessible parking issues. 

“It is not OK for people to just find a reason not to make change,” Emmanuel Jenkins said. “Voting with barriers will discourage people, and already does.”

Nancy Lemus was impressed by the accessibility capability of her son’s polling place. 

Lemus, a member of the Delaware Developmental Disabilities Council, accompanied her 19-year-old son, Christopher Garcia, who is living with disabilities, to vote for the first time during the 2024 election. 

She didn’t expect the New Castle polling place to have accessible equipment that would help her son be able to make his selections on the voting screen. She went into the polling place to ask if they had the needed accessibility control before she took her son out of the car. 

“I was surprised, I was impressed,” Lemus said. “I went in there with expectations that they wouldn’t have it.”

Lemus said she hoped the accessibility control would be made available at local libraries for people with disabilities to become familiarized with technology before elections.

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